Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, decided on Tuesday she would not accept a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) but, rather, would continue her career by accepting a position at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Howard University is a private, historically black university in the nation’s capital. Hannah-Jones and her supporters fought hard to get a tenured professorship at UNC. Tenure is a life-time appointment for a professor. The university first denied tenure for Hannah-Jones, saying it was concerned about her ideas and her teaching ability. Black students, Black professors and other professionals questioned the university’s opinion and its commitment to free speech and diversity. Hannah-Jones developed The 1619 Project for The New York Times. The collection of stories looked at the history of the United States starting with the arrival of enslaved people. It centers on the economic and social effects of the free labor provided by the enslaved people. The idea of examining history in this way is controversial in many states. Some public school teachers in states controlled by Republican leaders are not allowed to teach about the project in their classes. Last week, after weeks of criticism and days of protests from students, the university finally decided to offer Hannah-Jones a life-long position at its journalism school. On Tuesday, Hannah-Jones said she could not accept work at the university’s journalism school, which is named after Walter Hussman. Hussman is a wealthy Arkansas newspaper publisher who gave $25 million to UNC. He also campaigned against giving Hannah-Jones tenure. “I cannot imagine working at … a school named for a man who lobbied against me,” Hannah-Jones wrote. She added that Hussman “ignored” her years of work and her credentials because he believed The 1619 Project was about “the denigration of White Americans.” She also wrote that she could not work at a university whose leadership “permitted this conduct and has done nothing to disavow it.”
Title: Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Takes Job at Howard University after Tenure Fight
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5198/C.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Takes Job at Howard University after Tenure Fight' data-article-id='5744'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='23875'>Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, decided on Tuesday she would not accept a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) but, rather, would continue her career by accepting a position at Howard University in Washington, D.C.</span> <span data-start-time='23875' data-end-time='32104'>Howard University is a private, historically black university in the nation’s capital.</span> <span data-start-time='32104' data-end-time='41000'>Hannah-Jones and her supporters fought hard to get a tenured professorship at UNC.</span> <span data-start-time='41000' data-end-time='47167'>Tenure is a life-time appointment for a professor.</span> <span data-start-time='47167' data-end-time='58646'>The university first denied tenure for Hannah-Jones, saying it was concerned about her ideas and her teaching ability.</span> <span data-start-time='58646' data-end-time='71083'>Black students, Black professors and other professionals questioned the university’s opinion and its commitment to free speech and diversity.</span> <span data-start-time='71083' data-end-time='78438'>Hannah-Jones developed The 1619 Project for The New York Times.</span> <span data-start-time='78438' data-end-time='87438'>The collection of stories looked at the history of the United States starting with the arrival of enslaved people.</span> <span data-start-time='87438' data-end-time='96083'>It centers on the economic and social effects of the free labor provided by the enslaved people.</span> <span data-start-time='96083' data-end-time='103146'>The idea of examining history in this way is controversial in many states.</span> <span data-start-time='103146' data-end-time='113854'>Some public school teachers in states controlled by Republican leaders are not allowed to teach about the project in their classes.</span> <span data-start-time='113854' data-end-time='130333'>Last week, after weeks of criticism and days of protests from students, the university finally decided to offer Hannah-Jones a life-long position at its journalism school.</span> <span data-start-time='130333' data-end-time='143021'>On Tuesday, Hannah-Jones said she could not accept work at the university’s journalism school, which is named after Walter Hussman.</span> <span data-start-time='143021' data-end-time='152604'>Hussman is a wealthy Arkansas newspaper publisher who gave $25 million to UNC.</span> <span data-start-time='152604' data-end-time='158354'>He also campaigned against giving Hannah-Jones tenure.</span> <span data-start-time='158354' data-end-time='167083'>“I cannot imagine working at … a school named for a man who lobbied against me,” Hannah-Jones wrote.</span> <span data-start-time='167083' data-end-time='182750'>She added that Hussman “ignored” her years of work and her credentials because he believed The 1619 Project was about “the denigration of White Americans.”</span> <span data-start-time='182750' data-end-time='193583'>She also wrote that she could not work at a university whose leadership “permitted this conduct and has done nothing to disavow it.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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